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Etymology

From Damascus, where the fabric was originally made.

Pronunciation

Noun

Singular damask

Plural damasks

damask (plural damasks)

  1. An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus.
    True damasks are pure silk.
    • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
      […] but what struck Tom's fancy most was a strange, grim-looking, high backed chair, carved in the most fantastic manner, with a flowered damask cushion, and the round knobs at the bottom of the legs carefully tied up in red cloth, as if it had got the gout in its toes.
  2. A damask rose.
  3. (color/colour) A grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.
    damask colour:
    • 1849, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
      Thursday. D. certainly improved. Better night. Slight tinge of damask revisiting cheek.

Adjective

damask

  1. (color/colour) of a grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.
    • 1973, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd
      My cage has many rooms / Damask and dark / Nothing there sings, / Not even my lark.

Quotations

Translations

colour
  • Finnish: syvä vaaleanpunainen

Derived terms

See also


Danish

Etymology

From Italian damasco (“‘damask’”).

Pronunciation

Noun

damask n. (singular definite damasket, not used in plural form)

  1. damask

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Swedish

Noun

Inflection for damask Singular Plural
common Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Base form damask damasken damasker damaskerna
Possessive form damasks damaskens damaskers damaskernas

damask c.

  1. spat, gaiter

 

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